- Nov 07, 2020
Experience Quotes
What years and habits teach you.
This collection uses "experience" to cover both comfort and unease — from finding solace in familiar music, to noticing how wealth and poverty can sit side by side in daily life. For a broader look at personal journeys, see Journey quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives. The other attractive thing about 'As I Lay Dying' was the way it gave rich voices to the poor.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are traumatized, our entire organism is geared up to find the source of that threat and to do something about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My answer to this question is that witnessing the transformation that takes place in people when they master their traumas has proven to be a deeply sustaining and uplifting experience in my life.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- General Rule
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the general rule. And the general rule has been, people are going to invite you into the church, but they are not going to make you a deacon.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my experience as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, if a congressperson is identified as a potential target by a foreign intelligence service, that individual is notified.
- Current State
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daniel Masters is a master of the commodities markets with over 30 years experience. His bitcoin strategy is based on the parallels he sees from the oil industry in 1999 to the current state of bitcoin.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm getting used to this as a coach because it's a little jealousy from a lot of these coaches around the country. I do understand that, because we are NBA players trying to come back, and we didn't have any experience as college coaches. So we didn't, quote, unquote, 'Pay our dues.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020